The Potomac River Basin, stretching from Pennsylvania through West Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia, is home to a variety of wildlife and culture. The Potomac flows through the landscape, offering its shores to bathers and fishermen, its rapids to adventurous kayakers, and its natural beauty to all who live nearby. But, over the centuries and specifically since the coming of European settlers to the area 400 years ago, the region and the river have been transformed. Many of the changes that have affected the Potomac were the result of human actions the introduction of maize about 1,900 years ago, the accidental importation of the Chestnut blight in 1904, and the increased industrialization of the region. In this pictorial history, readers will have the opportunity to learn about the long-lasting effects of deforestation, mining, and pollution, the plant and animal life that call the region home, and the river's restorative power and enduring grace in striking views from the past 200 years.
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In Along the Potomac, author and historian Philip Woodworth Ogilvie takes readers on a wonderfully educational and entertaining journey down this majestic river. With a diverse assemblage of over 200 images, including sketches, maps, paintings, and photographs, and detailed captions, this visual history of the Potomac River reflects the changes that have occurred there, the influences that have held sway, and the complex relationship that has always existed between humans and the natural world they inhabit.
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Upper Potomac. The survey of 1736 determined the headwaters of the Potomac River to be the spring at the origin of the North Branch, so, technically, the river is the North Branch until it joins with the South Branch just east of Oldtown (named for an aboriginal settlement occupying the site until displaced by the Europeans). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Civil War, Potomac River, West Virginia, George Washington, Little Falls, Ayuia Creek, Harpers Ferry, United States, Charles County, Cockpit Point, District of Columbia, Harpcrs Ferry, Whites Ferry, Balloon Corps, Chain Bridge, Foggy Bottom, Fort Cumberland, Indian Head, Mount Vernon, National Park Service, Abraham Lincoln, Aqueduct Bridge, Army Corps of Engineers, Belle Plain, Fort Foote New!
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Upper Potomac. The survey of 1736 determined the headwaters of the Potomac River to be the spring at the origin of the North Branch, so, technically, the river is the North Branch until it joins with the South Branch just east of Oldtown (named for an aboriginal settlement occupying the site until displaced by the Europeans). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Civil War, Potomac River, West Virginia, George Washington, Little Falls, Ayuia Creek, Harpers Ferry, United States, Charles County, Cockpit Point, District of Columbia, Harpcrs Ferry, Whites Ferry, Balloon Corps, Chain Bridge, Foggy Bottom, Fort Cumberland, Indian Head, Mount Vernon, National Park Service, Abraham Lincoln, Aqueduct Bridge, Army Corps of Engineers, Belle Plain, Fort Foote New!
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- Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter by Meshach Browning in Back Matter
- Maryland and Delaware Canoe Trails: A Paddler's Guide to Rivers of the Old Line and First States by Edward Gertler in Front Matter
- Civil War (Vol 2) by Shelby Foote on page 92
- George Washington, V2 by Cabot Henry Lodge on page 88
- Fort Washington (MD) (Images of America) by Nathania Branch-Miles on page 92
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- Potomac Heritage Trail - A Hikers Guide by David Edwin Lillard and Ed Talone in Back Matter
- Protestant--Catholic--Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology by Will Herberg on page 95
- The Best from American Canals, Vol. VII by William H. Shank on page 77
- The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American Society (Religion in the Age of Transformation) by William H. Swatos in Back Matter
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